Get clarity on your goal and start focusing on a single line between where you are right now and what your goal is. Make the decision; and decision by definition is focusing and cutting yourself off from any other alternative (like those distractions/doors on the walls surrounding the path). People who live in poverty are acutely...
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Principle of concentration: you need to put sustained concentrated energy at the task at hand. Multi-tasking is not a good thing; it’s bad. Often, at work place and job descriptions multi-tasking is praised. But consider the air traffic controller. His job is extremely important, to bring the aircrafts down to land safely. Does he...
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Some call it solution, but solution to what? Others call it events, and that’s more like it, because they aren’t solving anything. More often than events, they are impulses. People like to show that they are doing, doing anything, even though it may not have any benefit. Making lots of calls, shuffling lots of papers, calling...
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10 ways to immediately becoming more innovative 1. Ask new and more powerful questions: instead of solving existing problems, ask more insightful questions. A question could be, “how do we discipline our child?” A new and more powerful question could be, “how do we make our child self disciplined?” 2. Change your eyes:...
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Dependent on Discrimination is your ability to innovate yourself and motivating those who you lead on how to innovate. What are the steps? o Continual Improvement policy: nothing should remain static o Innovation, o Quantification, o and Orchestration Curiosity is the driving force to finding a broader meaning to things. If the...
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1. Presence of mind: you must expect the unexpected and be absolutely ready for surprises. It will keep you prepared for that moment of spark, that flash of insight, that rapid discovery of truth. Presence of mind requires you to be patient, as well as attentive to opportunities. You can’t go into a situation knowing what...
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